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Doctors Without Borders released a new publication of DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope, showing that just 2 percent out of the 150,000 people with drug-resistant tuberculosis have access to the new, better treatments for the disease.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Ministry of Public Health recently reported that the measles epidemic has started to decline, but there are still serious risks for the disease’s transmission.
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Leaders from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Stop TB Partnership recently published the second part of the report titled "Out of Step," which was previously an outdated resource that allowed drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) to continue spreading.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has sent mobile medical teams on jeeps and motorbikes throughout the remote, insecure areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to diagnose, screen and treat people who have sleeping sickness.
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Doctors Without Borders (DWB) has responded favorably to the recent Tuberculosis Alliance (TB) announcement about the launch of its clinical trials for new investigational drugs for XDR-RB, currently the deadliest strain of drug-resistant TB.
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Medecins San Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) teams based in Ethiopia’s Gambella region said on Tuesday that they will expand the vaccination packages that they offer refugees from South Sudan to include Hib (Haemophilus influenza type B) and PCV (Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine) in an effort to decrease child deaths from pneumococcal diseases.
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India rejected Gilead's patent request for Sofosbuvir, a new hepatitis C (HCV) drug therapy, on Wednesday, a move that will allow other manufacturers to produce generic forms of the medication.
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The medical humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said in a recent report that the tuberculosis crisis is due to outdated policies and treatment methods.
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